spinney
Americannoun
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spinneys
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of spinney
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French espinei (masculine), espinaie (feminine) a place full of thorns, derivative of espine spine; compare Late Latin spīnētum difficulty, equivalent to Latin spīn ( a ) thorn ( spine ) + -ētum noun suffix ( see arboretum)
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Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Our path wound around several freshly-planted spinneys and then led through a plantation of pine-trees.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Picketed in the open plain or in the partial shelter of the occasional "spinneys," they stood with ears drooping and tails to the wind, pictures of dejection.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
Moreover he starts on an important journey to-morrow and would propose a very brief encounter with you at dawn, in one of the spinneys of the Park.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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